Sat.Feb 15, 2014 - Fri.Feb 21, 2014

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Internet Bug Bounty issues its first $10,000 reward

Scary Beasts Security

One of my side projects is as an adviser and panelist for the non-profit Internet Bug Bounty (IBB). We recently added Adobe Flash Player as in scope for rewards. Earlier today, David Rude collected $10,000 for a vulnerability recently fixed in APSB13-28. My thoughts on this are too long to fit into a tweet, so I summarize them here: This shows that the IBB is serious about rewarding research which makes us all safer. $10,000 is a respectable reward by modern bug bounty program standards.

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FTC steps up enforcement action

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Last week, the FTC announced that it had settled with a gaming company that falsely claimed to be certified under […].

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